Just the social facts, ma'am

 I've had a number of posts on various aspects of public opinion about abortion, but none of them give a general overview, so that's...

 In my last post, I tried to explain why satisfaction with the state of the country declined from about 1986 to 1992, despite decent economi...

 A couple of months ago, Andrew Gelman had a pos t (based on work by Yair Ghitza) about a Gallup question on satisfaction with the directio...